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The online publication platform perspectivia.net is an
international, cross-epoch, interdisciplinary and non-profit making
portal for humanities studies. The objective of perspectivia.net is the
advancement and strengthening of academic communication.

perspectivia.net
is supervised by Prof. Dr. Gudrun Gersmann, Director of the German
Historical Institute in Paris. It is a project of the Foundation of
German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) with the cooperation of the
Bavarian State Library, Munich (BSB), and numerous international
partners.

The basic idea behind perspectivia.net is to create a
publication environment for the German humanities institutes abroad
under the roof of the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad
(DGIA) (www.stiftung-dgia.de). Here the institutes themselves, as well as their respective cooperation partners, can present the findings of their research.

perspectivia.net
is multi-lingual. On perspectivia.net new texts can be published
originally in electronic form or print publications presented in a
retro-digitalised form.

In cooperation with the Centre for
Electronic Publishing (ZEP) at the Bavarian State Library in Munich
perspectivia.net can facilitate various modes of publication: journals,
book series, monographs, reviews, workshop und conference proceedings,
theses, reference editions, interviews, audio-files, illustration and
photograph sources.

perspectivia.net is obligated to the open-access principle for the advancement and promotion of a free academic exchange.

The
texts published on perspectivia.net have meta data features, which
facilitates locating publications with established search engines. The
Bavarian State Library Munich assures durable and long-term archiving
of the publication platform as well as the inclusion of the online
publications in the library catalogues.

With a subscription to an RSS feed the user can receive information on all the new publications on perspectivia.net.